REED
SHULDINERProfessor of Law and Associate Dean has been
researching, along with Professor David Shakow, a proposal for wealth
taxation in the United States. Shuldiner and Shakow have undertaken
a study of how the so-called phase-out of itemized deductions actually
operates within the federal income tax.

DAVID
A. SKEEL, JR.Professor of Law presented “Virtual Privatization:
Governance Reforms for Government-Owned Firms” at a series at Penn
Law in June and at a conference on Government-Owned Corporations in
Brisbane, Australia in July. Chapters from his book manuscript, Debt’s
Dominion, were presented at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton
University in April. In May, Professor Skeel participated on a panel
called “Best and Worst of the Proposed Bankruptcy Legislation” at
the AALS Bankruptcy Section conference in St. Louis. He also made
a presentation of his article “Shaming in Corporate Law” to a faculty
workshop at Vanderbilt University School of Law in February, at Fordham
University School of Law in November 2000, and at the Institute for
Law and Economics’ Conference on Norms and Corporate Law. Lastly,
he presented a chapter from Debt’s Dominion to Howard Rosenthal’s
“Politics and Finance” class at Princeton University in April 2000.
Skeel delivered “ The Rise and Fall of the SEC in Bankruptcy” at the
University of San Diego School of Law in September 2000.

Shaming in Corporate
Law, University of Pennsylvania Law Review (Forthcoming 2001)

Debt’s
Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America (Princeton University
Press, 2001)

Lockups
and Delaware Venue in Corporate Law and Bankruptcy, 68 University of
Cincinnati Law Review 1243 (2000)